| GEO ID: |
1662 |
| Name: |
Pelousion |
| Variant names: |
Pelousion - Tell el-Farama - P-iir-Amon ('Whom Amon has made') - sites including Tell el-Makhzan; El-Qanais (Dibban el-Makhzan) |
| Greek name: |
Πηλούσιον |
| Latin name: |
Pelusium |
| Egyptian name: |
Pr-ỉr-Ỉmn (Pȝ-ỉ.ỉr-Ỉmn) |
| Coptic name: |
ⲡⲉⲣⲉⲙⲟⲩⲛ |
| Other: |
|
| Modern name: |
Tell el-Farama |
| Ethnic: |
Pelousiotes (Pelousiotis) - Pelousiakos - Pelusiacus - Pelousios |
| Country: |
Egypt |
| Provincia: |
Aegyptus |
| Region: |
L |
| Nome: |
14? |
| Administrative situation: |
|
| Status: |
city: polis; metropolis; district: nomos |
| Location: |
in the northeastern Delta, near the Mediterranean |
| Identification: |
cf. also L14? Pelousiakon Stoma (11131) |
| Repertoria: |
Dizionario IV, p. 120; p. 120 (1); p. 121; Suppl. 1, p. 227 (1); Suppl. 2, p. 163-164 (1); Suppl. 3, p. 125 (bis); p. 125 (1); Suppl. 4, p. 109 (1); p. 109; Suppl. 5, p. 81-82 (1); Gauthier, Dictionnaire II, 1925, p. 36; p. 58; Timm, p. 926-935 |
| Bibliography: |
Gardiner, JEA 10 (1924), p. 120-121; Kees, RE, 1937, col. 407-415, s.v. Pelousion 1; Bottigelli, Aegyptus 21 (1941), p. 20; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 134; Cheshire, GM 84 (1985), p. 19-24; Abd El-Maksoud / Carrez-Maratray, CRIPEL 10 (1988), p. 97-103; Abd El-Maksoud / Wagner, CRIPEL 11 (1989), p. 135-138; Guermeur, Les cultes d'Amon, 2005, p. 302-303; CDD P, 2010, p. 5; p. 69; Carrez-Maratray, Pap. Congr. XXVI (Geneva 2010), 2012, p. 135-139; Ryholt, P. Carlsberg dem. 10, 2012, p. 150-152 |
| Maps: |
Baines / Malek, Atlas, 2002, p. 167 |
| Notes: |
in I. Péluse 392 not the city, but the god Pelousios is referred to; in I. Péluse 415, 2 Pelousios is rather a personal name than an ethnic new reading in P. Lond. 7 1930, 206 (no toponym; cf. Durand, Des Grecs en Palestine, 1997, p. 79) |
